Tacodeli

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Jul 282005
 

Tacodeli
I had my second trip to the new Tacodeli at Burnet and 183 Mopac this afternoon. It wasn’t too crowded a week or two ago, but it was packed today. I was alone this time, so I shared table space with the IBM’ers, St. Davidites, and Yoga Yoga moms. The new shopping center which houses the second Tacodeli location includes a Mangia, whose pizza for some reason always gives me the shits, Yoga Yoga and a Ben & Jerry’s, the second location for the interloping northern hippies. I’m still mad at them for discountinuing Cool Britannia. Long live Amy’s!

Anyway, I recommend the Blue Plate Special, which gets you rice, beans and two tacos of your choice. I’ve gone for one Al Pastor and one Adobado both times. I’m a sucker for Adobo sauce and they do it well. Their specialty is apparently the Fundido Taco. I’m not a big fan of the poblano, beef, onion, jack cheese combo, but it’s popular. Like any self-respecting taco place, they’ve got a salsa bar. There’s three options, a mild green, a medium red, and a hot green, called Dona. The Dona is just hot enough without being unbearable. Their menu claims there’s a habanero salsa as well, but I didn’t see it on my two visits. I’ll have to ask next time.

I’ve never been to the original location off of Spyglass, but the people who took me to this new location spoke of it in revered tones. It’s a welcome addition to the lunch rotation. Check it out.

 Posted by on July 28, 2005 at 9:04 pm

Cool Wynn?

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Jul 282005
 

Austin’s Mayor Will Wynn has been on a tear lately. I posted earlier this week about all of the recent Mabel Davis skatepark PR. The Chronicle contributed to the media frenzy in this week’s issue where our Mayor was described as wearing “a faded T and surprisingly tasteful camo shorts”.

In addition to hanging out with the skaters, I just found this video of him jumping off the Pfluger pedestrian bridge via Translucence. Of course, jumping off that bridge is illegal for the rest of us, but I guess the Mayor can do what he damn well pleases. I doubt you or I would have Austin Fire and Rescue divers waiting both in the water and in a dinghy to tow us to shore.

 Posted by on July 28, 2005 at 1:25 pm

Linkage

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Jul 272005
 

This started out as a post of one link, but I found a few other things in the entertainment world that needed some attention.

  • Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci and Justin Timberlake in a movie called Black Snake Moan where Jackson plays an old blues guy who cures Ricci’s character of nymphomania? Sounds like trip out of remake hell to me.
  • For the Stephen King fans out there, I just discovered that he writes a fairly regular column for Entertainment Weekly. I think the magazine is pretty much crap, but then a lot of people think King is crap too. Screw ’em. (P.S. It looks like you have to be an AOL or EW subscriber to read any of the columns prior to this year. Doh.)
  • This op-ed on Hillary’s crusade against Rockstar and GTA:SA is getting a lot of link love today. I was so pissed at her about it that I had to add to the love. Leave that crap to Leiberman, Hillary.
 Posted by on July 27, 2005 at 4:20 pm

Mystery Photo Contest #1

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Jul 272005
 

Photo Contest 1
So, I thought I’d try out a new game here on the Austin Metblog. It’s already being done on a somewhat regular basis in LA and Houston. The idea is that I post a photo of some location in Austin and you try and guess where it is. The first one to correctly identify the location in the comments wins a prize. I’m not sure what the prize is yet, but I’ll figure something out. I’ll let the contest go until Monday, at which point, hopefully I’ll have found something to give away. If nobody guesses it by Friday, I’ll add a hint. All you other Austin Metbloggers keep quiet. Let’s let our vast readership have a chance first.

Hint 1: It’s downtown (north of 1st, but south of 12th).

 Posted by on July 27, 2005 at 9:48 am

That’s my boy

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Jul 262005
 

The Wife took The Boy to I-HOP yesterday as a break from a series of trips to Lowe’s and Home Depot to get supplies to finish off the flooring that’s been in the works since The Incident. Apparently, he inhaled a cheese omelet, sausage, bacon and a couple of pancakes, no doubt he’s about to have another growth spurt. The trip prompted two classic quotes from The Boy.

First, as The Wife tells it, the waitstaff at I-HOP were particularly perky yesterday morning. Their waitress greeted them, went through the usual offers of drinks and finished with the time-tested, “My name is <INSERT NAME HERE>. Just let me know if you need anything else.” After she left the table, The Boy piped up in a very matter of fact voice without a trace of sarcasm or irony, “That was nice of her to tell us her name.” What a sweet kid.

The second classic occurred in the car on the way home from I-HOP. The Wife reports hearing The Boy making sniffing sounds from the back seat and then declaring that his hands smelled like bacon. The Wife, thinking this was bothering him, told him that he could wash his hands when they got home. The Boy responded, “No, I LIKE it. I know! They should make bacon soap!”

 Posted by on July 26, 2005 at 3:06 pm

Toddler Moment #561

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Jul 252005
 

We were all sitting at the table having lunch yesterday afternoon. The La finished her juice box. Holding the empty juice box, she extended her arm out in front of The Wife who was sitting next to her and said in a clear, practiced voice, “Be a good girl and get me another drink.”

The Boy claims that she copped that line from Teen Titans. All I could do was suppress a laugh and tell The La that she needed to say “Please”.

 Posted by on July 25, 2005 at 2:21 am

Pulse

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Jul 222005
 

STOMPAs seems to be their custom with major IMAX openings (we missed the one for Bugs!, dammit), the Bob Bullock museum is having an event this evening from 5-6pm for the opening of Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey, inspired by the long-running show of the same name. I remember it moving in to the Orpheum theater around the corner from where I was living in Manhattan in early 1994. I never did make it in to see the show. The touring version has been to the Paramount at least twice since I moved back to Austin.

Here’s the info from the source:

On opening night, from 5-6 pm, kids of all ages can take part in FREE activities, like playing percussion instruments and joining a drum circle led by Sherry Gingras of Drumz. Then stick around for Music under the Star, with a free concert by the Celtic group, Cluan, from 6-9 pm. Drumz returns for brief hands-on workshops during Cluan’s intermissions.

 Posted by on July 22, 2005 at 10:14 am

And the nominee is…

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Jul 202005
 

All kinds of uproar over John Roberts as Bush’s nominee to replace O’Connor. I just ran across a couple of AP photos showing Roberts’s family during last night’s press conference. It looks like John Jr. was having an Andrew Giuliani moment. Get down! Anyway, who are these people that they dress their kids like that in this day and age. I mean, I realize being nominated to the Supreme Court is a big deal, but saddle shoes??!??!

 Posted by on July 20, 2005 at 5:19 pm
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